Rape and Death Threats: What Men's Rights Activists Really Look Like

[redqueen]

Last edited Mon Apr 22, 2013, 06:37 PM - Edit history (1)

Men's Rights Activists are rage-filled misogynists who claim feminists intentionally "cover up" issues like male rape and workplace injury rates so women can achieve world domination. Har. Those pesky feminazis, however, keep getting in the way, so it's up to the MRAs to win the world over. And how do they do this? By threatening to "gag, rape and gut" bitches who dare to question their flimsy politics.

"Charlotte," the red-haired women in the video below, was one of many protestors at a recent lecture sponsored by a Men’s Rights group at the University of Toronto. A MRA documented her attempts to read an article by our own Lindy West detailing how feminists also want to dismantle society's archaic definition of masculinity. Charlotte was pissed off and feisty because she was consistently interrupted as she tried to explain how feminists hate the patriarchy, not men themselves. Her message wasn't anti-men, it was anti-gender stereotypes and anti-oppression. But she wasn't subservient. And now she's paying for the crime of being a woman with a public opinion.

After the video received around 300,000 views in one week, thousands of MRAs joined forces to harass and cyber-stalk Charlotte: they've circulated her personal info, dredged up details about her past (once told Charlotte that her dog who died years ago would be "disappointed" in her), and sent her messages threatening to rape and kill and rape her again — one of the more PG-rated ones promises that "we will not rest until your unholy blood is shed."

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http://jezebel.com/rape-and-death-threats-what-mens-rights-activists-rea-476882099

[BainsBane]

1. As they did with Adria Richards

who dared to think EEOC laws should be enforced.

[redqueen]

2. Yeah they're pretty consistent.

If a woman says anything they don't like, they cone out with the same routine. Rape/death threats, doxxing, various other forms of harassment.

Edit to add: After I posted this reply, the Google ad to the side is 'speed date sexy Asian ladies'.. I wonder what keyword from the thread thus far triggered that ad.

[Arcanetrance]

3. These guys make me ashamed of my gender and sometimes the human race.

I can't understand why they are so against tearing down the patriarchal system that hurts everyone. Men get screwed by this patriarchal crap too it needs to be torn down and the human race can just be equals. Otherwise our species at some point is doomed

[redqueen]

4. That's not fair...

Lots of people aren't assholes. The assholes delude themselves by pretending everyone else is an asshole too, but its really just them.

[Arcanetrance]

5. It probably isn't fair I just get very upset and disgusted reading some of their crap and I forget

How small a percentage those people represent

[redqueen]

8. Small, but scary.

MRAs are working hard to recruit sexually frustrated losers and garden variety misogynists on college campuses and across the net.

[chervilant]

9. And rapists,

and wannabe-rapists. As long as we have the patriarchy and penises, there'll be rape.

[ismnotwasm]

6. I've been reading so many stories about this

From everywhere and not just MRA's--they're just the ones proud of themselves-- the nature of on-line communication is a cesspool for misogyny. What's disturbing, is some the language, like rape threats against a woman someone doesn't agree with, is so socially integrated it seems normal to the ones using it.

[seabeyond]

7. yes. and then it is said in public, and outrage ensues. and men are flabbergasted they are being

called out on the misogyny.

it is all becoming a norm.

and again, i will repeat. we see the same dynamics thru out du to the very top. lighten up, ... ladies.

no

[chervilant]

10. And, some of us

have been labeled "a small group of radical feminists" who are "ruining DU for everybody"!

"Ladies," my shiny hiney! That's just a ploy to keep us "in our place."

I'll believe there's change when Johnson and Johnson makes commercials with men gleefully wielding swiffers and mops.

[boston bean]

11. Some men on DU claim they are not MRA's

yet they speak the speak and walk the walk.

They stalk feminists on DU. They don't believe in the patriarchy, they believe that feminists are bigots because they focus on womens rights. They say they aren't an MRA, yet their words and their actions are very similar.

[redqueen]

12. When some men lobbied hard to have me banned for daring to call out MRA talking points

that really should have been a wake up call.

Well, that and all the MRA talking points themselves. But, oddly, very few seem willing to call the shit out. We are apparently supposed to treat such idiotic bullshit as simply 'differing opinions'.

[LanternWaste]

13. The hardest disguise in the world to pull off isn't in looking like someone else

"Some men on DU claim they are not MRA's yet they speak the speak and walk the walk..."

The hardest disguise in the world to pull off isn't in looking like someone else, it's in not looking like yourself regardless of how many masks are being worn. And to be perfectly honest, I believe the five or six usual suspects are simply not progressive in any sense of the word, let alone politically.


MRA's are about as logical, as valid, and as intentionally purposeful as is "White Pride". Reading a lot of the material available on-line this weekend, I substituted "male" with "white", and "female" with "African-American"... I wasn't too surprised when it sounded precisely as though I was reading from a 1963 Klan announcement.